Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage

There’s just something about backing way, way off the cutting edge to rediscover the simpler joys of yesteryear. We’ve got a contest about to wrap up along those lines, and …. Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage.

We’ve got a contest about to wrap up along those lines, and there are festivals celebrating all things retro in the world of computers and electronics the world over. Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) Southwest happened back in the summer, but [Wave Design] just posted a gloriously retro retrospective, complete with the full 1990s video-editing workflow, completed on an SGI O2. The footage was recorded on a 1990s vintage DV camera, and read using a somewhat-newer Sony tapedeck that we sadly have to admit also counts as retro in these late days.

That gets piped into a vintage SGI O2 workstation that would have had us drooling back in the day, whose only concession to modernity is the inclusion of an NVMe SSD through a collection of adapters we can only call a hack. This may be burying the lede deep, but it turns out there is now an NVMe driver for IRIX 6.5. Using a modern SSD saves [Wave] from dealing with the literal stack of external drives video editing called for back in the day, so we can’t hardly blame him.

The viewfinder says you’ve nailed it. The saved footage disagrees.

Your Pixel might be recording something completely different from what you see. Pixel 11 video recording bug makes subjects disappear.

Similar complaints date back to the Pixel 6 Pro, with video stabilization and lens switching among the suspected culprits. We reproduced similar behavior on our Pixel 9 Pro XL, but our Galaxy S26 FE showed no comparable issue during testing.

How do you beat the iPhone at video recording when your camera can’t even keep the subject in the shot. That’s an awkward question for Google, whose Pixel phones have earned plenty of praise for photography but haven’t quite shaken the iPhone’s reputation as the safer bet for video.

A bizarre Pixel 11 glitch is putting that weakness in the spotlight, with moving subjects appearing fine in the viewfinder but disappearing from the saved footage. Older Pixels have been caught pulling similar disappearing acts.

After the hardware walk-through, [Wave]’s video gets into the software, which is surprisingly modern.